Friday 8/28 – Thursday 9/3
In local performer Steve Clark’s latest absurdity, Sarabande (Maybe That’s Why Coach Got My Liver), he stars as Captain Steve, an intergalactic cult leader who wears an Easter-egg blue rubber Batman-like costume. His trusty singing sidekicks, the Unicorn Girls, serve as a kind of Greek chorus during the technopop musical, which incorporates videos and computer animation. Show times are at 8 tonight and tomorrow night at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport. Tickets are $10. For more information, call 312-902-1500, or see the Critic’s Choice in this week’s Section Two performance listings.
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1 TUESDAY In 1986 the Rockford School Board banned Luis Rodriguez’s account of his descent into and climb out of gang life, Always Running. One member said the book was “irreligious, anti-family, left-wing, anti-American and radical….What’s in the book is harmful, ungodly and wrong.” But Rodriguez has made it his mission to inspire at-risk kids to start writing down their own stories. Tonight young writers from Rodriguez’s “Writing Through the Prisms of Self and Community” workshop will read some of their works in progress. The readings start at 7:30 at the Guild Complex at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division. It’s free. Call 773-296-1049.
